# The Big Fish Eat the Small

- By: Maarten de Vos (published by Joan Baptista Vrints (Flemish, active 1575-1612))
- Date: c. 1580
- Medium: Engraving in black on cream laid paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: Plate: 23.5 × 29.1 cm (9 5/16 × 11 1/2 in.); sheet: 25.9 × 33.6 cm (10 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.)
- Culture: Flanders
- Credit line: Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/266991)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/e50886a7-704b-4f44-a153-f711a1f0b664/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)